A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
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Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
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